Meaning

(US) Audacious and unrestrained..

Definitions by Sense

1. (US) Audacious and unrestrained.
2. (US) Incorrigible and insolent.
3. (Australia, US, slang) Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.
4. (of a person) Sexy, attractive.
5. (US, nonstandard) Bodaciously.

Example Sentences

If you’re going to lie, you might as well tell a bodacious lie.

1898, Emma M. Bachus, “Tales of the Rabbit from Georgia Negroes” in Journal of American Folk-Lore (Vol 12, No 45), page 115. Google Book page link. Then that bodacious Brer Rabbit, he go softly through the bresh, and just creep inside that pig and lay hisself down, and he lay out to keep he eye open and watch out for the cart, but ’fore he know hisself he fall asleep.

Modestly titled ‘Appeal’ with a more particular subtitle, Walker’s text was probably the most bodacious expression of cultural discontent and disavowal of slavery that American society had ever known.

As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were ‘baaaaaad’. The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

Bodacious living is evident everywhere, but it's easy not to notice the remarkable people and happenings that are present all around.

You, sir, are a bodacious scoundrel.

Twenty meters in diameter to match the bore of the huge Japanese ore drilling machines, the floor had been leveled by an equally bodacious milling robot, and the shiny metallic walls seemed to stretch on to infinity.

bodacious - Extremely strong, as in reference to an incoming signal.

Word Forms

• more bodacious
• most bodacious
• bardacious
• boldacious
• bowdacious

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